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The Ron V. Nixon Collection
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Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01731
	Date: July 1923  Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 3102, Class Z at Missoula, left side of locomotive."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN02874
	Date: June 1929  Location: Field, BC Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway Caption: "The riders on the back platform of the Imperial see ABS at work, as the semaphor blade drops top horizontal, protecting us to the rear through another block in the BC mountains"

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN09353
	Date: September 17, 1945  Location: Thompson Falls, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Extra 5140 East, powered by a Class Z-8 4-6-6-4, passes the Thompson Falls, Montana, depot. The train order signal displays "19 order" for both directions."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN09386
	Date: September 22, 1945  Location: Maywood, WA Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 6000 West, powered by a four-unit FT diesel, has just entered the siding at Maywood, Washington, in a view likely made from the back of a caboose on a train it has just met."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN09389
	Date: September 22, 1945  Location: Martin, WA Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 6001 West, powered by a four-unit FT diesel, is about to enter Stampede Tunnel #3, out of view around the curve, at Martin, Washington."

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Image Record Data - RVN09413

Date: October10, 1945  Location: DeSmet, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP First No. 1, powered by Class A-3 4-8-4 no. 2664, begins its ascent of Evaro hill, one mile west of DeSmet, Montana. The main track in the foreground is Rocky Mountain Division's Fifth Subdivision, known as the "Low Line" (Missoula-Paradise via St. Regis). Train No. 1 has just entered the Sixth Subdivision, known as the "High Line" (DeSmet-Paradise via Evaro and Dixon)."

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Image Record Data - RVN09423

Date: October10, 1945  Location: DeSmet, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP First No. 1, powered by Class A-3 4-8-4 no. 2664, begins its ascent of Evaro hill, one mile west of DeSmet, Montana. The main track in the foreground is Rocky Mountain Division's Fifth Subdivision, known as the "Low Line" (Missoula-Paradise via St. Regis). Train No. 1 has just entered the Sixth Subdivision, known as the "High Line" (DeSmet-Paradise via Evaro and Dixon)."

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Image Record Data - RVN09566

Date: March 01, 1946  Location: Rivulet, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped at the west switch, Rivulet, Montana. The west siding switch was a spring switch, which required special block signals. There was a "dwarf" signal governing a train exiting the siding. This signal was located just behind the photographer, and its placement between the tracks necessitated a slight curve in the siding. A spring switch allowed a train in the siding to exit without having to stop for the brakeman to close the switch behind the train. Spring switches were typically installed at locations where such a stop would be operationally undesirable, such as with ascending grades (which made it difficult for the locomotive to start the train again) or sharp curvature (which made signalling the engine crew from the caboose difficult or impossible)."

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Image Record Data - RVN09569

Date: March 01, 1946  Location: Spring Gulch, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped in the siding at Spring Gulch, Montana. This train ran from Missoula to Paradise via the Rocky Mountain Division's Fifth Subdivision, nicknamed variously by crews as "the low line" (for its river grade along the Clark Fork) or "the snake" (because of its numerous curves). The Sixth Subdivision, known as "the high line," extended bewteen DeSmet and Paradise, via Evaro hill and Dixon. Through passenger trains operated via the high line, and most freights operated via the low line. Although there were places along the low line that permitted higher speeds, most freight trains operated at a steady 35-40 miles per hour. The high number and close proximity of these curves didn't allow a tonnage freight sufficient distance to accelerate much above these speeds. This line was very scenic, causing more than one young fireman to get himself into trouble by "gawking" out the window instead of tending the fire."

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Image Record Data - RVN09570

Date: March 01, 1946  Location: Spring Gulch, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped in the siding at Spring Gulch, Montana. This train ran from Missoula to Paradise via the Rocky Mountain Division's Fifth Subdivision, nicknamed variously by crews as "the low line" (for its river grade along the Clark Fork) or "the snake" (because of its numerous curves). The Sixth Subdivision, known as "the high line," extended bewteen DeSmet and Paradise, via Evaro hill and Dixon. Through passenger trains operated via the high line, and most freights operated via the low line. Although there were places along the low line that permitted higher speeds, most freight trains operated at a steady 35-40 miles per hour. The high number and close proximity of these curves didn't allow a tonnage freight sufficient distance to accelerate much above these speeds. This line was very scenic, causing more than one young fireman to get himself into trouble by "gawking" out the window instead of tending the fire."

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Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman

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